KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.
A new piece of debris, meanwhile, found on Sunday on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Oce

HUSTLE, Va. – On his first Halloween at Rock Spring Farm, Randy Silvers sat in the bed of his blue Chevy pickup, surveying the open pastures. Suddenly, he noticed a yellow light twinkling in the night sky.
Faint at first, the blip grew brighter. When it began moving in tight circles amid the constellations, Silvers grew tense.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A spike in suicides and attempted suicides has prompted corrections officials to step up oversight at a California women’s prison as inspectors try to pinpoint the cause of the troubling increase.
Four women have killed themselves at California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County in the last 18

University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently sent a letter to the governor, Scott Walker, asking him to veto a provision in the state’s new budget that would weaken the tenure provisions of the university’s faculty. The Wisconsin Legislature wasn’t making a value judgment – at least not in the budget –

Americans are optimists. That’s why they hope the economy will start doing better than the tepid economic recovery of the past six years.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton’s economic plan rests on pessimism. In her bid for the presidency, she’s looking more to ward off Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders and his class-warfa

In hip, and even not-so-hip, circles, markets, restaurants and cultural festivals across the country, local is in. Many embrace this ideal as an economic development tool, an environmental win and a form of resistance to ever-greater centralized big business control.
Yet when it comes to areas being able to choose their urban form and fo

The top remains hot.
For the 22 business days ending July 16, CoreLogic reports that sales in the 27 priciest ZIPs -- median sales price beginning at $703,500 -- sales were up 15.6 percent compared to a year ago.
The median price change in this group was a gain of 3.7 percent compared to a year ago.
In the 27 least expens

Traditions play a prominent role in Darius Rucker’s latest studio album, “Southern Style.”
The title track revolves around a gal who adheres to certain beliefs yet isn’t afraid to indulge in some Lil Wayne and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Halfway through performing the single at Irvine Meadows on Saturday night, Rucker emphasi

Four suspected gang members were arrested early Sunday morning after their vehicle crashed during a police pursuit.
The incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. when a Anaheim police officer saw a car matching the description on an earlier police broadcast at Romneya Drive and State College Boulevard, Anaheim police Officer John Hasso said.

LONG BEACH – Police say a car crashed through street barricades near a Special Olympics event site before being involved in a deadly bridge crash. Officers say the preliminary investigation indicates 28-year-old Alvin Ray Shaw of Hawthorne, Calif., was behind the wheels of a 2012 Mercedes Benz seen driving erratically Saturday at a

The Kraft Heinz Co. is recalling some of its single-wrapped slices due to a possible choking hazard, Kraft officials said. In a news release Friday, a company spokesman said that a thin strip of the film could remain stuck to the slice after the wrapper is removed. If the film sticks to the slice and is not removed, it could potentially b

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe on Sunday dismissed a report of the shooting death of a male lion who was a companion of Cecil, a well-known lion killed by an American hunter in early July.
The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority released a photograph of the lion named Jericho that it said

LONG BEACH – Electricity has been restored to all Southern California Edison customers in downtown Long Beach who had been without power since an underground vault fire and explosion, the second such outage in as many weeks, officials said today. However, the transition from temporary generators to Edison's permanent electrical netw

Italian police found more than $400,000 in cash on Snoop Dogg as he prepared to board a private plane heading to Great Britian. Customs officials found $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage at the Lamezia Terme airport in Calabria on Saturday, according to reports from Reuters. The rapper had performed there Friday. The amount is